Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dame Rumor has sent me on more wild-goose chases than I have ever taken the trouble to count. Often have I scrapped a perfectly good column to go out on a rumor tangle only to find that someone had struck another false alarm. But there is something fascinating about all this. Big news breaks now and then. These breaks make up for the slow days and put a new zest into the life of the newspaper world...
...then there is the witchery which the polished buttons, the gold braid, the snug capes, cast over even the most surfeited debutante; fortunately those crisp commands prevent a military encounter under the chandeliers of the Copley. Last there is the rumor, the vague suspicion, that the librettist who conceived "In the Army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow," was nearly half right...
...from newspaper selling with pooled assets of $16.32 to a position where they control 29,704 miles of track with Cleveland's new Union Terminal as their monument. The Depression has brought a severe strain on the holding companies which bind their empire and there has been many a rumor that they have lost control. Once, when such reports were at their height, Brother Mantis was off duckshooting and Brother Oris was calmly addressing New England Governors on the way he would like to see consolidation come about (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). Dexterous financial management and the strong backing...
Herr von Papen then served notice that his Cabinet proposes to revise the German constitution. Berlin rumor said that the word "republic" will be omitted. Conceivably the von Papen Cabinet, acting by presidential decree, could so alter the fundamental law of Germany as to prevent the Hitlerites, who won 14,000,000 votes in the last Reichstag election (TIME, Aug. 8), from scoring further gains. Said Satevepost correspondent Isaac Marcos-son, returning from Germany last week: "Chancellor von Papen will disenfranchise 50% of Adolf Hitler's followers if he raises the voting age, as he may, to 25 years...
Beside starting a rumor all over the country that he had lost his mind, these two blasts had the following definite results...